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Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

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Re: Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

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Post by KronisLV »

johnklos wrote: post #78

This has quite the, "oh, we got both kinds. We got country AND western" vibe. I don't think I'd call Linux, Mac and Windows "All Major Operating Systems". Also, while istoica says there's ARM support, I see no links for downloads for anything but 64 bit x86, and there's nowhere to go for more information, unless we're expected to ask all questions on Twitter. Perhaps "Parity on popular 64 bit x86 operating systems" w…

> I don't think I'd call Linux, Mac and Windows "All Major Operating Systems".

In my eyes this pretty much covers it: they even have both DEB and RPM distro support, as well as AppImage and Flatpak packaging formats (they could also consider snaps, but those might not be strictly necessary, considering that there are .deb packages available).

What else would you like to add to the list of major operating systems?

Genuinely curious, i might expand it to include some of the BSD varieties, like FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but they never really embraced OCI images much, Docker not being a first class citizen, nor Podman, given that they already have the historical jails mechanism which is what you should use on those OSes in most cases.

One might also consider Android/iOS a "major" operating system, but those are almost never the targets for software like this, or things related to servers. Actually that's a shame, considering that an old phone with a custom Android ROM and root might make for a really cost-effective alternative to a Raspberry Pi, but alas, we're not quite there yet as an industry.

Any other suggestions? Agreed about ARM support, but that's an architecture question, rather than an OS one.

Re: Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

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Post by krautsourced »

LeanderK wrote: post #79
johnklos wrote: post #78

This has quite the, "oh, we got both kinds. We got country AND western" vibe. I don't think I'd call Linux, Mac and Windows "All Major Operating Systems". Also, while istoica says there's ARM support, I see no links for downloads for anything but 64 bit x86, and there's nowhere to go for more information, unless we're expected to ask all questions on Twitter. Perhaps "Parity on popular 64 bit x86 operating systems" w…

which major operating systems are missing? I would indeed call Linux, Mac and Windows the "major" operation systems. You've got most use-cases covered. Surely there are exceptions, but these are the popular options.

BeOS, obviously.

Re: Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

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Post by johnny22 »

emptysongglass wrote: post #77
istoica wrote: post #2

This release features - First binary for Windows, all due to amazing work of podman team - https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.0.3 - First test flatpak image - Binaries for ARM - On Linux, easily switching between native podman and podman machine based setups - Easily identify where settings are stored - Debug panel and log level control to know everything that is happening - Optimization of settings…

Question: why was the official Podman desktop app [1] elevated over this app? The Companion app which this post links to appears more fully featured. [1] https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop

I didn't even know there was an official one, so thanks :)

Re: Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

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Post by johnklos »

LeanderK wrote: post #79
johnklos wrote: post #78

This has quite the, "oh, we got both kinds. We got country AND western" vibe. I don't think I'd call Linux, Mac and Windows "All Major Operating Systems". Also, while istoica says there's ARM support, I see no links for downloads for anything but 64 bit x86, and there's nowhere to go for more information, unless we're expected to ask all questions on Twitter. Perhaps "Parity on popular 64 bit x86 operating systems" w…

which major operating systems are missing? I would indeed call Linux, Mac and Windows the "major" operation systems. You've got most use-cases covered. Surely there are exceptions, but these are the popular options.

I take exception with the choice of wording in "all major operating systems".

If you saw a game marketed as runnable on "all major operating systems", would you think it's deceptive, or at very least a poor choice of wording, if the game really only ran on Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11?

In the open source world, on a site called "Hacker News", "all major operating systems" would usually be thought to mean more than just Mac, Windows and Linux, particularly when it's chosen as a headline.

Also, claims by the author about ARM support are nice, but I don't see any ARM anything, anywhere, so not only is it not "all major operating systems", but it's "just the three most popular OSes, and only then on 64 bit x86".

Re: Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

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Post by johnny22 »

johnklos wrote: post #78

This has quite the, "oh, we got both kinds. We got country AND western" vibe. I don't think I'd call Linux, Mac and Windows "All Major Operating Systems". Also, while istoica says there's ARM support, I see no links for downloads for anything but 64 bit x86, and there's nowhere to go for more information, unless we're expected to ask all questions on Twitter. Perhaps "Parity on popular 64 bit x86 operating systems" w…

Probably means all major OS with the contrainst that can also run podman?

Re: Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

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Post by speedgoose »

girvo wrote: post #54
lmeyerov wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, docker in wsl2 is great, including GPU support wsl2 mode is super impressive -- none of the overhead of docker on os x

None? How does it manage that, it’s still running in a (Hyper-V) VM? Are there any good docs/blogs that go into detail on how they’ve managed to avoid that overhead? Would be awesome to learn about

HyperV is lightweight and from what I understood, windows runs on top of hyperV too when you enable WSL2. You may lose a few % of performance in video games.

Re: Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

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Post by shaklee3 »

lmeyerov wrote: post #46
eberkund wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't Docker already support WSL2? Or is there something different about Podman's WSL2 support which makes it better/different than/from Docker's?

Yep, docker in wsl2 is great, including GPU support wsl2 mode is super impressive -- none of the overhead of docker on os x

any idea if podman will support GPU? I couldn't get it to work.

Re: Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems

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Post by Geezus-42 »

johnny22 wrote: post #85
emptysongglass wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Question: why was the official Podman desktop app [1] elevated over this app? The Companion app which this post links to appears more fully featured. [1] https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop

I didn't even know there was an official one, so thanks :)

I was not aware of it either, but it appears to not be able to do as much from the discription.
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